Self and Other: The Scarlet Letter

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English

 

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Verna L

 

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July 22, 2013

 

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In the process of writing The Scarlet Letter, he uncovered his unnaturally close and dependent relationship to his mother from which his sense of guilt originally derived. Since he did not want this sense of guilt to be revealed to the reader, he added "The Customhouse" to shift the focus of the origin of his guilt onto his ancestors...
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Loving however, claims "The Customhouse" to be a cover-up for Hawthorne's deep identity crisis: " He desperately needed a beginning (...) that would save him from the self he had revealed in the true text" (Loving, p.24). By adding "The Customhouse" after he had written the body of The Scarlet Letter he retained his sense of identity which would otherwise have fallen apart by having to face the suppressed conflict with his mother...
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